🌿🐜 Terrarium is hosting
@_ravenative_ and
@pjliveira MAY 14th! 7pm to 11pm
Terrariums’s Earth Punks invite you to come and resonate with us in collaborative sound making to open the night, followed by live performances by
@_ravenative_
Ariel Orah presents Hanomann_O, an audiovisual live performance built from a growing archive of melancholic pop, dangdut-inspired songs, karaoke videos, text works, and political reflections developed across several years of artistic practice. Often considered one of the signature forms of Indonesian contemporary mainstream music, dangdut emerged through a complex historical synthesis of vernacular cultures of the Indonesian archipelago, Malay, Indian, Arab, and Western influences shaped through trade, migration, and colonialism. For Orah, the project functions as both personal memory and research interface, investigating extractive economies, geopolitical conflict, ecological crisis, migration, and the erosion of trust within today’s polycrisis.
Placing voice at the forefront and working through an experimental electronics approach, Hanomann_O searches for the melancholiness and cheesiness within experimental electronic sound itself. The performance connects Orah’s background in sound art and visual archives with the diversified vernacular aesthetics of childhood and early life, framing the identity turbulence of living in diaspora for nearly half a lifetime. Moving beyond stereotypes of dangdut as merely kitschy or sentimental, the work reveals its potential as a sharp, emotional, and politically charged cultural language.
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Pedro Oliveira presents DESTERRO
(noun, Portuguese: expulsion from a homeland; exile; solitude)
an ongoing research on and poetic-technical exploration of contiguity as the withdrawal of consent to integrate, and of non-causality as an ethics of listening.
